"Family of Barack Obama The family of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, and his wife Michelle Obama is made up of people of Kenyan (Luo), African-American, and Old Stock American (including originally English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, German, and Swiss) ancestry. Their immediate family was the First Family of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The Obamas are the first First Family of African-American descent. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is"
"Jr., Michelle Robinson's grandfather; their family also was from Georgetown and had Gullah ancestry.) He is 12 years older than Michelle. While their families frequently visited when they were young, the two of them got to know each other more as adults. In 1992 she married Barack Obama, the future President of the United States (2009-2017). Funnye and they were involved in community organizing. Funnye was raised in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination. At 17, he was encouraged by his minister to enter the clergy. Dissatisfied with Christianity during his college years at Howard University"
"Michelle Obama's distant ancestry also includes Irish and other European roots. On June 26, 2012, a monument to Shields was erected in Rex, with an inscription summarizing her life and ""a five-generation journey that began in oppression"" resulting in her descendant becoming First Lady of the United States. A year later, the monument was vandalized and knocked from its base, but was quickly replaced. Marian Lois Robinson (born Marian Lois Shields, July 30, 1937), is descended from Dolphus Shields and his wife. She is now widowed, but had married Michelle's father, Fraser Robinson, on October 27, 1960. Robinson was formerly"
"a benefit to support an international development organization called the Seva Foundation founded by Wavy along with Ram Dass. In 2009, Robinson performed in ""The People Speak"", a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's ""A People's History of the United States"". On September 8, 1996, he married actress Lala Sloatman, niece of musician Frank Zappa. They were divorced in 1998. In December 2000, Robinson married actress Kate Hudson. Their son, Ryder Russell Robinson, was born on January 7, 2004. On August 14, 2006,"
"Marian Shields Robinson Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; born July 30, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and mother-in-law of Barack Obama, former President. Marian Shields was born in Chicago in 1937, the fourth of seven children—five girls, followed by two boys—born to Purnell Nathaniel Shields, a house painter, and his wife Rebecca Jumper, a licensed practical nurse. Two of her sisters and her brother Steve still live in Chicago on the South Side, as she did. Both parents had multi-racial ancestry, but slavery times were not discussed much when she was"
"worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity and healthy eating. She supported American designers and was considered a fashion icon. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III (1935–1991), a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson (b.July 30, 1937), a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store. Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school. The Robinson and Shields families trace their roots to pre-Civil War African Americans in the American South. On her father's side, she is descended from the"
"Lenore Romney Lenore LaFount Romney (; November 9, 1908 – July 7, 1998) was an American actress and political figure. The wife of businessman and politician George W. Romney, she was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan. Her youngest son, Mitt Romney, is a U.S. Senator-elect from Utah, a former Governor of Massachusetts and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Lenore LaFount was born in Logan, Utah, and raised in Salt Lake City. She went to Latter-day Saints High School, where she developed an"
"ended. In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. Robinson was assigned for three months as Obama's adviser at the firm, and she joined him at several group social functions but declined his initial requests to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha (""Sasha""), in 2001. The Obama daughters attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When they"
"Romney were elected, Senor ""would likely get a top West Wing job, perhaps deputy chief of staff or even national security adviser"". He gave ""intensive coaching"" to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan for the latter's debate with Vice President Joe Biden in October 2012. After Romney lost the November election to Obama, Senor's criticism of leading Republicans for being fair-weather friends to the candidate, cheering him as ""iconic"" before the election and ""eviscerating"" him afterward, was widely reported. In April 2006, Senor married Campbell Brown, editor in chief of The 74, a nonprofit education news website, who was then weekend"
"offered Robinson the job. Robinson asked for time to think and also asked Jarrett to meet her fiancé, Barack Obama. The three ended up meeting for dinner. After the dinner, Robinson accepted the job with the mayor's office. It was at this time that Jarrett reportedly took the couple under her wing and ""introduced them to a wealthier and better-connected Chicago than their own."" When Jarrett later left her position at the mayor's office to head the Chicago department of planning and development, Michelle Obama went with her. Since leaving the White House, Jarrett has volunteered as a senior advisor"
"him Distinguished Professor in 2005, a title he held until his death. Much in demand, he was a frequent featured performer throughout the U.S., and danced in Africa, Europe, and Russia. Robinson and his wife Edna (Martin) were married for 55 years, and they have three sons, LaVaughn Jr., Gregory, and Shelton. He died in Philadelphia of heart failure. Had Robinson attended dance school in the 1930s, he would have learned a slower Broadway style of tap dancing. Coming from a street tradition that emphasized speed and flash, his mature style developed from close observation and imitation of the dancers"
"affairs news program on WYCC, the PBS station in Chicago. On December 1, 2011, during a live 9 p.m. newscast, while speaking with another on-air reporter, Robinson said, ""There is no Santa."" The station received numerous telephone calls and emails complaining about her comment. Robinson later apologized and said that she should have given viewers the opportunity to take any children out of the room before making the comment. Robinson dated educator, author, businessman and future partner of Oprah Winfrey, Stedman Graham from 1982 until 1985. She has been married three times. Robinson was married to retired track and field"
"leaders of the year in 1995. Michelle has been named New Orleans Woman Business Owner of the Year and has received the Best of Black Business Award. The Business and Professional Women's Foundation has named her Employer of the Year. The American Council for Career Women has granted her their Achiever's Award. On July 22, 1966, at the age of twenty, Michelle married 33-year-old Albert S. Hubbard in Marin County, California. They divorced in January 1968. On April 25 of the following year, she married 35-year-old Robert DoQui in San Francisco. DoQui, whose term of endearment for Michelle was ""crazy"
"1967), a stripper with The Dreamboys whom she met when seeing them perform on a night out in London when she was 17. On 19 May 1992, their daughter Rachel Appleton (now Rachel Howlett) was born. She and Robinson moved to New York where they married in 1993, before Appleton returned to England after having the marriage annulled. She had relationships with television presenter Jamie Theakston and actor Jonny Lee Miller during the late 1990s. Appleton began dating Liam Howlett of the electronic band The Prodigy in 2000, after they met at the V Festival. They married on 7 June"
"a turning point. Robinson met Barack Obama when they were among the few African Americans at their law firm, Sidley Austin LLP (she has sometimes said only two, although others have noted that there were others in different departments). She was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate. Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. Before meeting Obama, Michelle had told her mother she intended to focus solely on her career. The couple's first date was to Spike Lee's 1989 movie ""Do the Right Thing"". Barack"
"the country is waiting for leadership and action on."" He has called for a complete ban on assault rifles. O'Rourke married Amy Hoover Sanders, the daughter of Louann and William Sanders, at her parents' ranch in Lamy, New Mexico, on September 24, 2005. William Sanders is a real estate developer who managed a real estate portfolio estimated at $20 billion by Bloomberg News. Louann Sanders is the director of education development for the La Fe Community Development Corporation and executive director of the La Fe Preparatory charter school. The couple and their three children live in El Paso's Sunset Heights"
"Rachel Robinson Rachel Annetta Robinson (née ""Isum""; born July 19, 1922) is a former professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson. She was born in Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met Robinson in 1941 prior to his leaving UCLA when his baseball eligibility ran out. She graduated from UCLA June 1, 1945, with a bachelor's degree in nursing. Rachel and Robinson married on February 10, 1946, the year before he broke into the big leagues. Their son Jackie Robinson, Jr. (1946–1971) was born in November 1946. The Robinsons would"
"a secretary at Spiegel catalog and a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama were campaigning in 2008, Robinson tended the Obamas' young children. She continued to help care for them while living in the White House as part of the First Family; she was the first live-in grandmother since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration. Some media outlets dubbed Robinson as the ""First Granny"". Marian took Sasha and Malia to school daily. Michelle Obama's father, born August 1, 1935, died March 6, 1991, married Michelle's mother, Marian Shields, on October 27, 1960. Robinson was a pump worker at the"
"most well-known defendant to enter Aronberg's program was golfer Tiger Woods, whose 2017 DUI case made international news. Aronberg gained national media attention during the 2016 Presidential Election when he announced he would not move forward with a battery charge against Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's campaign manager. Jupiter Police had charged Lewandowski with misdemeanor battery after former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields alleged that he grabbed her after a Trump press conference on March 8 at Trump International Golf Club. In May 2015, Aronberg married Lynn Martin, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader and now public relations professional, on St. Pete Beach."
"K.C.M.G. (1893–1960), the U.K. Minister to Finland between 1947 and 1951 and U.K. Ambassador to Peru from 1951 to 1953. Douglas Robinson Sr. Douglas Robinson (March 24, 1824 – November 30, 1893) was a Scottish-American banker and businessman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age. He was married to Fanny Monroe, the daughter of U.S. Representative James Monroe and grandniece of James Monroe, the 5th President of the United States. Their son, Douglas Robinson Jr., was married to Corinne Roosevelt, sister of President Theodore Roosevelt and aunt of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Robinson was born on"
"a robust, financially healthy and racially integrated krewe by the 1990s. Glapion served variously as finance chairman, president and chairman of the Zulu board. In 2000 Rogers reprised the reign in honor of her father, who died in 1999. Rogers' mother, Joyce Glapion, now retired, was also active in Carnival. Rogers is an Obama family friend. Her former husband, also Obama's Inaugural Co-Chair, is a former teammate of Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson on the Princeton University basketball team. Rogers' brother and mother still live in New Orleans. Rogers is a survivor of breast cancer, following a diagnosis in 2003."
"she lived with her husband, was barred from running for not having lived in Madagascar for 6 months before the poll Ravalomanana then publicly endorsed medical doctor and politician Jean Louis Robinson from Antananarivo. Since October 2015, Lalao Ravalomanana has been Mayor of Antananarivo. Lalao Ravalomanana Neny Lalao Rakotonirainy Ravalomanana (born 1953) is a Malagasy businesswoman and politician. When her husband, Marc Ravalomanana, was President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009, she was First Lady of Madagascar. Ravalomanana was born Lalao Harivelo Rakotonirainy in Antananarivo. She married Marc Ravalomanana in 1974 at a ceremony held in Imerikasinina. The couple have"
"Chicagoans. One of Michelle's best friends was Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita Jackson, later the godmother of the Obamas' first child. Michelle herself had worked as an aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley. Marty Nesbitt, a young, successful black businessman (who played basketball with Michelle's brother, Craig Robinson), became Obama's best friend and introduced him to other African-American business people. Before the marriage, according to Craig, Obama talked about his political ambitions, even saying that he might run for president someday. Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive, officially nonpartisan, that helped Carol Moseley"
"with celebrity guests including Ray Cooney, Linda Lusardi and Robin Askwith. In 2012, Michelle was executive producer of the film based on the Ray Cooney theatrical ""Run for Your Wife"". Michelle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to charity. She is married to Graham Fowler. In 2015, Michelle was a guest on ""Big Brother's Bit on the Side"" and feared she could have been blinded after being hit on the back of the head with a champagne glass thrown by Farrah Abraham during a fight between Abraham and"
"like to pay the highest tribute to President Hoover, I cannot do so in this campaign. On April 29, 1882, she married Douglas Robinson Jr. (1855–1918), son of Douglas T. L. Robinson and Frances (née Monroe) Robinson at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Robinson's maternal grandfather, James Monroe (1799–1870), a member of the House of Representatives, was the nephew of U.S. President James Monroe (1758–1831). Their marriage produced four children: Throughout the 1920s, Robinson's health failed her a number of times and she had a total of sixteen eye surgeries. Robinson died on February 17, 1933, age 71, of pneumonia,"
"really like, and how she had to face and deal with all the challenges that confronted her husband. Rachel was able to meet with actress Nicole Beharie and give her an idea of what her relationship with “Jack” was really like. She wanted to make sure their story was told as truthfully as possible. Rachel wanted the audience to feel and experience the issues just as she and her husband had. Rachel Robinson Rachel Annetta Robinson (née ""Isum""; born July 19, 1922) is a former professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson. She was born in"
"at a convention of the 1996 National African American Leadership Summit, both men were booed off the stage. A fight broke out between LaRouche supporters and black nationalists. Louis Farrakhan credits Bevel with helping to formulate the 1995 Day of Atonement/Million Man March in Washington, D.C. Its main sponsor was the Nation of Islam. Bevel was married in 1961 to activist Diane Nash after he completed his seminary studies. They worked together on civil rights, and had a daughter and son together. They divorced after seven years. Bevel married three other women in the following decades. In total he had"
"had extended families in Chicago, whom the family saw frequently at holidays and other times. While Michelle and Barack Obama campaigned for his candidacy as president in 2008, Robinson helped them by providing support to her granddaughters. Early in January 2009, the family announced that Robinson would move into the White House with the rest of the First Family to provide further transition support for her granddaughters. She was the first live-in grandmother there since Elivera M. Doud, the mother of Mamie Eisenhower, during the Eisenhower administration. Some media outlets dubbed Robinson the ""First Granny"". Marian Shields Robinson Marian Lois"
"1970, she married Nicholas Robinson, with whom she had a relationship since they were fellow law students and who was then practising as a solicitor. Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant, caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding. The rift was eventually overcome in subsequent months. Together they have three children. Her son Aubrey, a photographer and film-maker who is ""committed to social justice"", received media attention in 2011, when he participated in Occupy Dame Street. Robinson's early political career included election"
"The procedure was successful and there were no complications reported. Melania Trump Melania Trump (; born Melanija Knavs; , Germanized to Melania Knauss; born April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian-American former fashion model and, as wife of the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump, the current First Lady of the United States. Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris, later moving to New York City in 1996. Her modeling career was associated with Irene Marie Models and Trump"
"growing up. Their families had moved from rural Georgia to Chicago in the early 20th century during the Great Migration to northern industrial cities. As a girl, Marian attended public schools in Chicago. Shields married Fraser Robinson III on October 27, 1960 in Chicago. She had worked as a secretary for mail-order retailer Spiegel and at a bank. They had two children together, a son Craig and a daughter Michelle LaVaughn, whose middle name was after Fraser's mother. While the children were in school, Marian was a full-time homemaker, encouraging their education and related activities. Both Marian and her husband"
"Her parents divorced in 1979 after 22 years of marriage. She dated Pakistani cricketer (now Pakistan prime minister) Imran Khan for several years. In 1990, she married William Robert Charles ""Willie"" Athill, a big-game fisherman, with whom she lived on a desert island for two years. By that marriage, she has two children, a daughter Storm (b. 1990) and a son Atticus (b. 1992). She is now divorced from Athill, the marriage having broken down in 1993. On 22 June 2013 the ""New York Times"" quoted Campbell in an article that described the law of primogeniture as a legacy instance"
"widowhood. She described her second marriage (1978-1986) to Raymond Ploetz as ""disastrous,"" and had it annulled. In 1996 she married John J. Conheeney, the retired CEO of Merrill Lynch Futures, after they were introduced by her daughter, Patty. The couple live in Saddle River, New Jersey, (Mary having first moved to New Jersey in 1956 when she and her first husband bought a home in Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey] and also have homes in Manhattan; Spring Lake, New Jersey; and Dennis, Massachusetts. In 1981, Higgins Clark happened to be in Washington, D.C. the day President Ronald Reagan was"